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To create a trimmed planar surface using three closed polylines
1 Create a planar trim surface from three polylines, responding to the prompts.
Desktop Menu Surface Create Surface Planar Trim
Specify first corner or [Plane/Wires]: _wire
Select wires: Select object (1)
Select wires: Select interior circle (2)
Select wires: Select circle (3)
Select wires: Press
ENTER
Instead of selecting the objects individually, you could also drag a crossing
window around all of them and press ENTER.
A trimmed planar surface is automatically trimmed to the largest boundary
created by the wire. As in this example, when closed areas exist inside the
boundary, these holes are trimmed out.
2 Use the Extents option of
ZOOM to redisplay all of the wireframes, and select
the object for the next exercise.
Lofted Surfaces
You can create a lofted surface from one or two sets of wires, each with similar
attributes, such as having approximately the same direction. You must select
the wires in consecutive order.
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